Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em?


Hi,

I'd love to hear the impressions of people who've actually spent some time with these speakers to share their sense of their plusses and minuses. Mapman here on Audiogon is a big fan, and has shared lots on them, but I'm wondering who else might be familiar with them.
rebbi
They sound fantastic. I am presently listening to a live recording of Berlioz' "Les Troyens" and the vocalists are reproduced perfectly. These 5000's having explosive dynamics and an ultra-clean tranparent sound. I will be posting a detailed review in a few days once I complete conducting all of my requisite torture tests. So far, I'd say these are John Strohbeen's best effort to date - the improvements over the Walsh 5's are staggering, and the improvements over the most excellent Walsh 5 Series 3s are significant, if that were possible. Amazing loudspeakers - quite awesome - I am enjoying them immensely!
Mamboni, I assume the ST-1000 amp must be doing yeoman's work with the 5000's as it did with your 5 S3's. How do you like it? I've had the ST-1000 amp since Friday. Been running it 24/7. Are you using a tube preamp? I'm using a VTL 2.5. I emailed you about the ST-1000 but never heard from you.
Sorry I didn't respond - I'm presently buried under unread Emails and work-related stuff.

The ST-1000 is driving the Walshs beautifully -effortlessly. The sound is very lively and dynamic, silky yet super-detailed and the noise floor is non-existent. I'm driving the amp with a Pioneer Elite SP99D Preamp-processor which has an utterly clean, quiet and neutral sound. I use it in stereo mode exclusively.

My main listening system:

Ohm Walsh 5000
Cables: solid core .9999 silver 18g
Wyred4Sound ST-1000
Pioneer Elite SP-99D Preamp-Processor
Cambridge Audio DACMagic
Pioneer Elite PD-59 transport
Excellent Mamboni, will be looking forward to more comments/review when you can. Tim
...Wyred ST-1000 will soon be shipped. Will compare to the McCormack.
Foster_9 -- not to derail this thread but how did your experimenting with the Burson buffer work out between your VTL 2.5 and McCormack? I presume you have taken it out of the chain with the Wyred ST-1000?
--Michael